Wim Thomas

Wim is heading the Energy Analyses Team in Shell’s Global Scenario Group. An
energy scenario practitioner for some 5 years, his team is responsible for
worldwide energy analyses, long-term global energy scenarios, and advises
Shell companies on a wide range of energy issues, including global supply and
demand, regulations, energy policy, pricing and industry structure. He has
been with the Shell group of companies for almost 25 years, with prior
positions in drilling operations, subsurface reservoir management, and
commercial and regulatory affairs in gas and power.

Wim is a UK member to the World Petroleum Council and World Energy Council’s
energy scenario group and was chairman of the British Institute of Energy
Economics in 2005. He holds a postgraduate degree in Maritime Technology,
Delft University, The Netherlands.

Ilkka Savolainen

Ilkka Savolainen is Research Professor at the VTT Technical Research Centre of
Finland. He is also Docent (Adjunct Professor) at the Department of Forest
Products Technology of the Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland.
Previously, he was Professor of Environmental Management at the School of
Business and Economics of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

His research has focused on environmental technologies and policies for
climate change mitigation and acidification control. He is currently involved
in the development and assessment of environmental technologies and energy
systems in the context of climate change mitigation strategies.

He is a member of the Finnish Liaison Committee of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate change (IPCC). He is an assistant editor of Progress in Industrial
Ecology, An International Journal.

He has also been an expert member of Finland’s Delegation to the Climate
Negotiations since 1999 (Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations’
Framework Convention on Climate Change) and a member of the Executive
Committee of the OECD IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme since 2001.

Organizers

Royal Dutch Shell's renowned energy scenarios have, for many years,
helped energy experts and thought leaders around the world anticipate the
evolution of global energy supply and demand.

Shell's 2008 energy scenarios chart two plausible ways in which the
globe's sources and uses of energy may evolve over the next half-century.
These two scenarios show how the world will grapple with three hard truths:
the surge in global energy demand, the end of easily accessible oil and
increasing environmental stresses including the impact of greenhouse gas
emissions.

VTT’s greenhouse gas emission reduction scenarios consider the
ways to limit the global warming to two degrees of Celcius as proposed by the
European Union. Revolutionary changes will be needed in the energy production
and use to achieve this objective, but these changes will also create a huge
market for new effective technologies.